SoDA is an acronym for Software Documentation Automation. SoDA is a report generation tool that supports day-to-day reporting as well as formal documentation requirements with an easy-to-use interface for defining custom reports and documents. SoDA is tightly integrated with Rational's market-leading development tools, giving you a single interface for reporting on requirements, design, test, and defect status.
SoDA automates the production of software documentation, substantially reducing the effort required to produce software documentation. The primary function of SoDA is to retrieve information from various sources and use it to generate a document or report according to a template. SoDA comes with several predefined templates, or you can use its template-building component to build templates for your specific needs.
SoDA for Word:
§ Adds document generation to the capabilities of Microsoft Word
§ Performs incremental document regeneration to reduce turnaround time
§ Preserves data entered directly into the document from generation to generation
§ Enables extraction of data from multiple information sources, such as Rational Rose and Rational RequisitePro, to create a single document
§ Maintains consistency between documents and information sources
Let’s look in more detail at each aspect of SoDA documentation automation: